Haley reignites Ramaswamy feud after he bashes American work culture: ‘There’s nothing wrong with US workers’
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Back-and-forth comes after Elon Musk and Ramaswamy weighed in on state of U.S. workforce and culture. Former UN ambassador Nikki Haley tore into her old rival Vivek Ramaswamy on Thursday, after the entrepreneur and Trump administration adviser wrote a lengthy takedown arguing mainstream U.S. culture doesn’t encourage science and technology excellence, leading companies to hire foreign-born and first-generation workers.
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The pair previously clashed when both were candidates during the 2024 Republican presidential primary. The dust-up is part of a larger intra-party fight going on within the GOP at the moment, after Ramaswamy and Elon Musk both spoke out over the last two days criticizing the U.S. workforce while suggesting immigrant and first-generation workers were more qualified.
Many within the MAGA movement reacted in anger to the comments, arguing they went against the Trump campaign’s “America First” nativist agenda. During the campaign, Trump doubled down on his long history of hardline and often racist immigration stances, calling for “bloody” mass deportations and claiming immigrants were “poisoning the blood of the country.”.
Musk and Ramaswamy later attempted to clarify their comments. “Merit or group quotas,” Ramaswamy added. “Can’t have both. I’ve said it for years & it remains my view today.”. While Musk and Ramaswamy’s comments dealt with legal workers pursuing work visas in specialized fields like technology and engineering, the Trump administration they support has called for a wider crackdown on illegal immigrants, promising to end birthright citizenship and carry out the largest mass deportation in U.S. history immediately upon taking office, including a potential resumption of “zero tolerance” family separation.
